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View article: Best Practice or Buzzword? the Opportunities and Challenges of Mentorship for EDI in Creative Technology
Best Practice or Buzzword? the Opportunities and Challenges of Mentorship for EDI in Creative Technology Open
This paper explores mentorship as a much‐celebrated strategy for improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) across a range of exclusionary working sectors. As a tactic for addressing underrepresentation and scaffolding entry, progres…
View article: The Canadian Clearview AI Investigation as a Call for Digital Policy Literacy
The Canadian Clearview AI Investigation as a Call for Digital Policy Literacy Open
In 2020, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC) led a joint federal-provincial investigation into privacy violations stemming from the use of facial recognition technologies. The investigation was prompted specifically by …
View article: 78 Empowering Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: Insights into Serious Video Game Preferences
78 Empowering Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: Insights into Serious Video Game Preferences Open
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Serious video games are designed for skill-building and are increasingly being used for healthcare interventions with adolescents and young adults (AYAs). The study goal was to identify AYAs’ preferred game features, by d…
View article: Priority Areas of Education Development in the Conditions of Digital Transformation and the Information Society
Priority Areas of Education Development in the Conditions of Digital Transformation and the Information Society Open
The rapid development of digital technologies has led to the emergence of a new milestone in human civilization, the digital era, which is characterized by the appearance of virtual human extensions, that is, the Internet, as well as vario…
View article: Net neutrality regulation and the participatory condition
Net neutrality regulation and the participatory condition Open
Across the globe, net neutrality policy consultations have sought the input of an engaged networked public by recursively mobilising the very technology of the internet itself as a kind of policy participation. This paper examines such cas…
View article: Datafication and discrimination
Datafication and discrimination Open
Popular accounts of datafied ways of knowing implied in the ascendance of big data posit that the increasingly massive volume of information collected immanently to digital technologies affords new means of understanding complex social pro…
View article: Scholarship as Cultural Production in the Neoliberal University: Working Within and Against ‘Deliverables’
Scholarship as Cultural Production in the Neoliberal University: Working Within and Against ‘Deliverables’ Open
This article focuses on the idea of scholarly work as cultural production to help understand how the tensions of precarious, early-career academic employment are articulated on a day-to-day basis in the context of pressures to efficiently …
View article: When passion isn’t enough: gender, affect and credibility in digital games design
When passion isn’t enough: gender, affect and credibility in digital games design Open
Recent controversies around identity and diversity in digital games culture indicate the heightened affective terrain for participants within this creative industry. While work in digital games production has been characterized as a form o…
View article: Twittering in the OECD’s “participative web”: Microblogging and new media policy
Twittering in the OECD’s “participative web”: Microblogging and new media policy Open
The recent popularity of microblogging site Twitter raises regulatory concerns that outstrip the purview of emerging new media policy, such as the recommendations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OEC…
View article: Histories of Hating
Histories of Hating Open
This roundtable discussion presents a dialogue between digital culture scholars on the seemingly increased presence of hating and hate speech online. Revolving primarily around the recent #GamerGate campaign of intensely misogynistic disco…
View article: Mapped, Measured, and Mined: The Social Graph and Colonial Visuality
Mapped, Measured, and Mined: The Social Graph and Colonial Visuality Open
This manifesto argues that the social graph and its associated contemporary surveillance economies might be situated within a longstanding colonial tradition of harnessing visuality for control and profit.
View article: Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance
Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance Open
Can private data “havens,” localized servers, and offline infrastructure empower secure and private user control over data? Contrasting Sealand's counter-surveillance policies with the NSA's Utah Data Center mass surveillance apparatus, th…
View article: Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance
Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance Open
Can private data “havens,” localized servers, and offline infrastructure empower secure and private user control over data? Contrasting Sealand's counter-surveillance policies with the NSA's Utah Data Center mass surveillance apparatus, th…